Motionless by Jennghis (PG)

[paian]

Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Pairings: None
Categories: Jack O'Neill, character study, vignette
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: surreallis
Author's Website: Mindrot, also SG-1 fic tag
Link: Motionless

Why This Must Be Read:

In this pensive, deceptively quiet vignette based on two icons (scroll up to see them), Jack is standing at the window of his office in Washington, pondering his situation and thinking about his team. It's a very nicely crafted study in which every passing detail signifies, and it paints a wistful, slightly achy portrait of Jack somewhere toward the start of S9. About 656 words.

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Cultural Exchange by Ellen M. (NC-17)

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Rec Category: Elizabeth Weir
Pairing: Elizabeth/Teyla
Category: femslash, humor, Elizabeth Weir, Teyla Emmagan, sga
Warning: none
Author on LJ: quasiradiant
Author's Website: poorly kept secrets
Link: Cultural Exchange

Why This Must Be Read:

Ellen M. writes a humorous and extremely hot fic, grounded in that initial awkwardness you'd expect when your girlfriend brings you your mail, and it includes a strap-on you specially ordered. Both Elizabeth and Teyla are wonderfully characterized. And did I mention it was hot?


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Augment by Tielan (PG-13)

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Rec Category: Teyla Emmagan
Pairing: none
Category: gen, challenge, sga, episode tag, Teyla Emmagan
Warning: none
Author on LJ: tielan
Author's Website: Tielan's fanfics
Link: Augment

Why This Must Be Read:

Tielan is a fixture among Teyla fans and fanfic, and she delivers once again with a lovely character piece, a tag to season four's "Spoils of War." This story shows a careful insight into Teyla, examining some of the fears of her impending motherhood and taking them apart pragmatically, which is Teyla's way.


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Pick up Pieces, by Random (PG)

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Rec Category: Jack and Daniel friendship

Pairing: none

Categories: Jack and Daniel friendship, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, gen, episode related, angst, character study

Warnings: none

Author on LJ: randomfreshink

Author's Website:

Link: Pick Up Pieces

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Why This Must Be Read: I love how Random writes Jack and Daniel - with sharp, abrasive edges, yet wordless communication that's almost quantum level, sometimes. And in Pick Up Pieces, a missing scene from Need, Jack sees right through Daniel's compulsive habits to the core of what Daniel has to do to win the right to rejoin SG-1.

 

Daniel must pass an evaluation by MacKenzie before Hammond will allow him back on the team, but he's a little too used to using words as weapons for the sessions to do any good. And when Daniel gets a little too carried away with verbal fencing, it takes Jack to understand the underlying motives, call Daniel on it, and help him understand just what he has to do if he really wants things to return to nomral.

 

Courage and trust and faith in one another, and the ability to allocate and accept anger and blame in the right places: it's all here, it's all Jack and Daniel, and it's all good.

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